Transcript of “Heartspoon”
If you take your finger and you run it down your breastbone, at the end there’s that little pit.
In the 15th century, that was called your heart spoon.
Oh, that’s nice.
Yeah, that place was also what was referred to as the pit of the stomach or the epigastric fossa.
If you want to get fancy.
That’s not as romantic.
No, not nearly.
You know, your heart spoon.
I love that.
But fossa is used in archaeology to refer to a dig, right?
Or a hole.
A ditch, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
From Latin for ditch, yeah.
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